The annual GABS Hottest 100 Aussie Craft Beers poll has been finalised, for the 17th year, finding familiar favourites and a flight of new additions. Australia’s yearly battle of the beers for 2025 proved a stand-off between nearly 400 of the country’s best craft breweries. Around 55K consumers registered to cast their votes, nominating nearly […]
Perth’s celebrated Dutch Trading Co (DTC), known for its crafty beer line-up, will be closing on 11 August. After a strong nine years of pleasing punters and collecting awards such as Beer & Brewer’s Best Beer Venue, owner Joel Beresford announced the closure on Facebook last week. In questioning whether DTC would keep going when
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The 16th edition of the annual GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beer poll has dropped, reflecting consumers served entertaining voting campaigns, proving creativity an important part of the crafty market beyond merely brewing beer. Tens of thousands of votes were counted for the ‘hottest’ beers from 2023, nominating a whopping 1,877 different brews, from 436 of
Serial hospitality entrepreneur Michael Vale is one step closer to opening his ground-breaking Urban House of Brews, after securing agreements with the five craft brewers to reside in the Newtown venue. Following news in March that the old Hub Theatre was to be the site of the innovative new concept, a selection of Australian craft brewers
In a world where beer is no longer simple, people serving it must know something of what they’re doing. Acclaimed brewer Neal Cameron offers insight into insight. We’re big on education in Australia. We are in the top ten most educated countries in the world. And until successive governments savagely degraded our TAFE system,
The debate in Australia around ‘What is Craft Beer’ has taken a sharp turn, with the Craft Beer Industry Association (CBIA) effectively ousting brands owned and linked to major brewers. The CBIA yesterday announced a “membership reform agenda” that would focus on the independence of brewers of the sector. It plans to “re-define membership eligibility”
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The creators of the Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular are parting with their Sydney instalment of the Local Taphouse, citing booming business in their other operations. Beer legends Steve Jeffares and Guy Greenstone are the brains behind the GABS phenomenon, emanating from their craft beer meccas, the Local Taphouse in Darlinghurst and St Kilda East. The
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One of Sydney’s most popular craft beer haunts has been sold by the purveyors of Good Beer. The Good Beer Company has operated sister venues the Dove & Olive and the Keg & Brew, both in Surry Hills, for the past several years, developing them into the quintessential beer meccas. In September 2015, Good Beer
Lion has made another move into boutique brewing, partnering with Eumundi’s Imperial Hotel to revive one of Australia’s original craft beer brands. Brewing engineer and developer John Lynch assembled investors for a new brewery in the Eumundi region, just north of the Sunshine Coast. The venture purchased the Imperial Hotel and installed a brewery, which
Consumer research has reached inside Australia’s legion of craft beer drinkers, with important results for licensees. The Sydney-based Beer Cartel is a distributor of over 1,100 craft beers from around the world, providing tasting rooms and beer clubs, and distribution of curated six and twelve-packs to budding connoisseurs. Surveying over 6,500 beer drinkers, the company
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